New York: Doubleday, (1989). Paperback. Translation by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen.12mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 246pp. Near fine. Quite uncommon advance review copy of the first U.S. edition of this Mexican author's first book. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiii, 112pp. Fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. First edition of this translation, tight and handsome. More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Hardcover. Introduction by Edward Hoagland. Relief etchings by Claire Van Vliet. 4to. Decorative brick cloth, brick cloth over boards slipcase. 123pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. A fresh, bright and tight LEC edition of this 1935 fantasy, with colophon at rear noting limitation of 2000..... More
New York: Pocket Books, n.y. Hardcover. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. 16mo. Green leatherette spine with gilt lettering and decorations and green decorated paper over boards. 370pp, (7pp). Matching decorative endpapers. Near fine. Small ownership signature on half-title page. Wonderfully tight and handsome edition, a volume in the "Collector's Editions" imprint..... More
New York: Halcyon House, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. Translation by Lafcadio Hearn. 8vo. Buff decorated paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 189pp. Frontispiece, 5 full-page plates. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with single edge chip; text block age toned as usual. Tight and attractive copy of this..... More
New York and London: Dodd, Mead & Company and John Lane, 1909. Hardcover. Translation by Alfred Allinson. Illustrations by Marcia Lane Foster. 8vo. Quarter black cloth and tan decorated paper over boards. 156pp. Woodcut frontispiece and 15 full-page woodcut illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Slightest bit of edgewear; front inner..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Introduction by H.R. Steeves. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xvi, 295pp, (8pp ads). Patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn. A tight and nice later (ca. mid-1950s) printing of #210. More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Blue cloth. xii, 253pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned; ownership signature/year on front pastedown. Tight and quite attractive early (ca. 1936) printing of this edition. More
Berlin: Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlkung, 1912. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and gilt/brown decorative stamping. 615pp, (1p), (7pp ads). Decorative endpapers. Near fine. Tight, bright and superb later printing (137 thousand), entirely in German, of this 1905 novel whose title translates as "Holy Land" by the German novelist (1863-1945) who..... More
New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1960. Hardcover. Translation by Sam Hileman. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 376pp. Very good/very good. Jacket spine slightly sunned; light foxing to page edges. Tiight, clean first edition. Uncommon. More
[Bogota]: Editorial Oveja Negra, [1989]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 284pp. Map. Very good. very good. Slightest bit of faint jacket wear. Tight and superb first Colombian edition of "The General in His Labyrinth." More
N.p. The Pierre Louys Society, 1927. Hardcover. Illustrations by Clara Tice. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and gold/purple decorated paper over boards. 407pp. Color frontispiece, 11 full-page partly-color illustrations. decorative endpapers. Very good. Faint edgewear. Lovely and tight illustrated edition of Gautier's racy 1835 romance, with colophon..... More
N.p. Castle Books, N.y. [ca. 1970]. Hardcover. Translation by Bernard Frechtman. 8vo. Yellow paper over boards, dust jacket. 256pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn and rubbed. Tight, decent reprint edition. YOUNG 1383. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Hardcover. Translation by Malcolm Cowley. 12mo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 172pp. Decorations. Very good/good plus. Some jacket edgewear, with 1" chip at tail of jacket spine. Tight, attractive reprint edition. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948-49. Hardcover. Translation by Justin O'Brien. Three volumes. Small 4to. Blue cloth. xx, 382pp, xviii; 462pp, xx; 450pp, xx. Frontispieces. Very good. Minor edgewear, with rumple at head of first volume; ownership signature on each front flyleaf. Volume I is a later (5th) printing, Volume..... More
Konstanz: Carl Hirsch, n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Red cloth with black spine lettering and large pictorial plate on front board. 144pp. 4 full-page color plates. Very good. A bit edgeworn. Tight, nice undated (ca. 1900) later printing, entirely in German, of this "Water Court: A Tale for the People" (first published..... More
New York: Persea Books, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. White cloth spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 172pp. Near fine/near fine. First U.S. edition, tight and nice. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1991]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and white paper over boards, dust jacket. 257pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and handsome second printing. More
New York: The Viking Press, [1984]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards, dust jacket. 203pp. Near fine/near fine. A handsome and tight first edition of this short story collection. More
New York: The Viking Press, [1977]. Hardcover. Translation by Helen R. Lane. 8vo. Red cloth spine with black lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 268pp. Near fine/near fine. First U.S. edition. More
New York: The Viking Press, [1977]. Hardcover. Translation by Helen R. Lane. 8vo. Red cloth spine with black lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 268pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and attractive first U.S. edition. More
Leipzig: Insel=Verlag, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan decorated paper over boards with paper labels. 53pp, (2pp ads). Very good. Tight, attractive undated printing (1931 ownership signature on front flyleaf helps date it) of this 1904 novella whose title translates "At the Gates of Life," entirely in German. #13 in the "Insel..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1963. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, dust jacket. 403pp. Good plus/good plus. Crease on back cover. Scarce first U.S. edition. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with silver lettering and lavender paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 134pp. Near fine/very good. Single small chip at upper right corner of front panel of otherwise-handsome jacket. Tight and nice first edition of this writer's first book. More